The Philippines had signed the Rome Statute and was currently studying the legal, political and practical implications of becoming a State party, which did not mean any lesser commitment to the promotion of human rights, the elimination of impunity and the preservation of international peace; rather it betokened an unwillingness to take a perfunctory decision for such motivations as jumping on an unstoppable bandwagon or possibly having a national elected as one of the Court's first judges.
Esto no significa que haya disminuido su compromiso en favor de los derechos humanos, el fin de la impunidad y la paz internacional, sino que no desea tomar una decisión precipitada por consideraciones tales como la voluntad de no quedar marginada de un proceso imparable o incluso la posibilidad de que un nacional de Filipinas esté entre los primeros magistrados de la Corte.